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...pair can't seem to just have fun with each other on this woman's weekend in which they are finally free of the men who hem them in. Thelma is still the teenager at the slumber party who gets bored and has to call a few boys to come over. Less than an hour out of town, she talks Louise into stopping at a raunchy bar, where she dances with a creep who then tries to rape her in the parking lot. The women are sympathetic enough characters by this time so that we leap over the hurdle many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This What Feminism Is All About? | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...Vatican's. Above all, it brought to Orlando the power of the Disney ethos, which can never be overstated. Executives have traveled to the park to learn about the Disney style of management, which trains employees to cherish Walt, despise stray gum wrappers, follow a manual that sets the hem length of costumes to the exact inch and put on a smile all day every day. KGB agents have visited the park to line up for photographs with Mickey Mouse. Cultural anthropologist Umberto Eco has studied the Disney iconography. Novelists like Max Apple have produced mythical tales about the park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orlando, Florida: Fantasy's Reality | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...knew we wanted to hem up their big guns," Golden Knights Coach Mark Morris said. "We got them off of their game by clogging up center ice. If you can do that, you force them to dump the puck...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Golden Knights End an Era of Harvard Hockey | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...Hockey East-leading Eagles will come out on the attack with the infamous "HEM" line, named after right wing Steve Heinz (18 goals, 23 assists, 41 points), center David Emma (24-36--60) and left wing Marty McInnis (18-26--44). Emma, a speedy 5'9", 170-lb. senior, captains the squad and anchors the offense...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: BC Meets Huskies | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...scared, you know." But if segregation drove Hampton away from his roots, it also helped drive him back: Florence Heights, the predominantly white west-side neighborhood he chose in Los Angeles, quickly turned all black after his arrival. And while partitions and signs did not hem in the Hamptons' liberty, crime and congestion eventually did. A family of four was killed when a gunman mistook their home for that of an enemy. Another neighbor, about three doors down, lost a son in a shooting, and rival gang members took revenge on the young man even after his death by riddling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: You Can Go Home Again | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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